Episode 18: ""
SurvivorAU: Redemption Episode 18 boxscore
Filmed: September 7-8, 2025 | Aired: April 1, 2026
- Ep.18 RC: (Obstacles, disc roll) - It's a surprisingly tight battle at the end, but Simon outrolls Brooke, so Simon and Cameron win reward - a trip to the Survivor cinema. Cameron gets Simon to agree they'll pick Brooke and Loz to join them (the "two mums"), Cameron announces the Brooke pick, and Simon announces ... Jackson?
- Ep.18 reward/idol: The reward is, as expected, videos from home. Tears flow, despite the sliders and popcorn and candy. Everyone looks for idols at the end (hint: popcorn), but Brooke finds a package in her seat cushion. Unluckily, Cameron spots her finding it. As she later discovers in camp, it's only half an idol, with the other half somewhere in camp. But Cameron thinks it's a full one.
- Ep.18 IC: (Seesaw side build) - Lots of stacks are dropped, but it ends up yet another Simon-Brooke race at the end, with Brooke pulling out the win this time.
- Ep.18 Tribal: After an entire episode talking about going to rocks, we get the initial 4-4 tie between Simon and Loz, but on the revote ... it's 4-2 Simon! (Brooke flipped.) This is why you don't try to go to rocks! So long, Simon.
Episode 18 scoring notes
- Challenge scoring: No partial credit in the RC, because only one team won anything. And in the IC, everyone other than Brooke tied for second, because clearly, you can't assume stacks won't drop, so the only measurable progress is winning.
- Tie votes: As always, only the first round of voting counts for VFB purposes, which means that while Brooke cast the deciding vote on the revote, she technically didn't cast a VFB-credited vote. (She could have just done this in the first round, and saved us all the time!)
Vote count (first round):
- Simon received 4 votes, from Caleb, Cameron, Loz, and Sally.
- Loz received 4 votes, from Brooke, Jackson, Keeley, and Simon.
Vote count (reovte):
- Simon received 4 votes, from Brooke, Caleb, Cameron, and Sally (voted out, 4-4; 4-2).
- Loz received 2 votes, from Jackson and Keeley.
| Reward challenge | Immunity challenge | Overall score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | ChW | ChA | ChW | ChA | Plc | % Fin | MPF |
| Simon | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 82.2% |
| Brooke | 0.00 | 0.50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 69.0% |
| Caleb | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 57.3% |
| Jackson | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 52.4% |
| Loz | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 48.8% |
| Cameron | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 44.4% |
| Sally | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 43.5% |
| Keeley | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | t-2 | 0.50 | 37.2% |
| Tribal Council stats | Overall scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant | VFB | VAP | TotV | TCA | SurvSc | SurvAv |
| Simon | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1.28 | 9.51 |
| Brooke | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.93 | 5.82 |
| Cameron | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.71 | 4.90 |
| Jackson | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.87 | 4.62 |
| Loz | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0.83 | 3.34 |
| Caleb | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.70 | 3.29 |
| Sally | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.74 | 3.00 |
| Keeley | 0 | - | 8 | 1 | 0.82 | 3.00 |
| Ben | - | - | - | - | 0.64 | 2.27 |
| Blanche | - | - | - | - | 0.13 | 1.02 |
| Mark | - | - | - | - | 0.79 | 2.82 |
| Richard | - | - | - | - | 0.87 | 2.76 |
| Lottie | - | - | - | - | 0.78 | 2.29 |
| Faith | - | - | - | - | 1.36 | 5.54 |
| Aisha | - | - | - | - | 1.05 | 3.78 |
| Tez | - | - | - | - | 0.56 | 1.41 |
| Lyndl | - | - | - | - | 1.36 | 3.81 |
| Don | - | - | - | - | 0.90 | 1.64 |
| Johnson | - | - | - | - | 0.24 | 0.48 |
| Harry | - | - | - | - | 0.83 | 2.70 |
| Paula | - | - | - | - | 1.10 | 2.06 |
| Eliza | - | - | - | - | 0.83 | 1.43 |
| Cat | - | - | - | - | -0.08 | 0.17 |
| Daniel | - | - | - | - | -0.42 | 0.08 |
Glossary of terms
- Challenge
stats
- ChW: Challenge Wins. For tribal challenges, a contestant earns a fraction of 1 win, depending on if they participated (no points for sitting out). So in a five-person tribe's win, each participant gets (1/5) of a point, or 0.2 points. Duels (or individual RCs as in Ep1) at Redemption Island count as half a challenge (and half a win). Individual challenge wins count as a full point.
- ChA: Challenge Appearances. Used to calculate ChW%. Fractional for tribal challenges (same as ChW), except sit-outs get charged for an appearance, because they could have participated.
- ChW%: Challenge Win%. Simply, ChW% = ChW / ChA.
- SO: The number of times a contestant sat out of a challenge.
- Tribal
Council stats
- VFB: Votes For Bootee. The number of times the contestant has voted for the person who was ultimately voted out. Applies only to initial votes (no points for revotes in case of a tie). Special case: In a final three TC, where only one vote is cast (by the F3 IC winner), only that vote counts.
- VAP: Votes Against the Player. The total number of tribal council votes cast against the contestant. Again, only initial votes count (no penalty for revotes), and here a hidden immunity idol (if played) erases the votes. In the special case of a final three tribal council above, only the F3 bootee receives a vote against.
- TotV: Total votes cast during the tribal councils the player has attended (again, only initial votes count). Used to adjust for different vote totals as tribes shrink.
- TCA: Tribal council appearances. The number of times a contestant has attended tribal council (at which they voted).
- TC%: Tribal Council percent. Attempts to reward voting for the bootee (which players controlling the vote almost always do), while punishing receiving votes yourself. The formula is: TC% = [VFB - (VAP/TotV)] / TCA.
- wTCR: weighted Tribal Council Ratio. Very similar in intent to TC%, but calculated as a ratio of VFB to VAP, while also scaling to a uniform number of TC appearances. The formula is as follows: wTCR =2* [VFB / (4+VAP)] x (14/TCA). I originally tried (1+VAP) to avoid dividing by zero, but this overly rewarded getting zero votes against relative to just one vote against, which seemed silly. (4+VAP) scaled that effect back comfortably. 14 was used as the scaling factor for TC appearances because there are usually 14 episodes, then a final scaling factor of 2 to bring maximal scores up to roughly even with ChW and JV% high scores.
- Jury
stats
- JVF: Number of jury votes for the contestant to win. Maximum nine (Earl Cole, Fiji), theoretically.
- TotJ: Total number of jurors. Necessary to not punish unanimous 7-juror winners (JT Thomas, Tocantins).
- JV%: The percent of total jury votes cast for the contestant, or Jur% = JVF/ TotJ. This number is used, raw, in SurvSc, and is scaled in SurvAv (multiplied by six) to make it similar in size to ChW and wTCR.
- Overall
scores
- Survival Score (SurvSc). It's simply the sum of Challenge Win% (ChW%) + Tribal Council% (TC%) + Jury Vote%, for a maximum possible score of 2 (3 after the finale).
- Survival Average (SurvAv). It's a simple sum of fractional Challenge Wins (ChW), weighted TC Ratio (wTCR), and (eventually) a weighted Jury%. The latter two max out at six points total, for a theoretical maximum score of around 18 or so.